When the National Crime Agency (NCA) announced a court settlement this summer with Zamira Hajiyeva it described the outcome of its first-ever McMafia order as a “fantastic” success. The justification...
The government should reinvest criminal assets and fines into an innovative new Economic Crime Fighting Fund to turbocharge enforcement after the Autumn budget offered minimal funding for tackling economic crime,...
The UK agencies tasked with fighting economic crime together generate £566 million pounds on average each year for the government through seizing criminal assets and imposing regulatory and criminal fines....
On 8 October 2024, the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) reached a last-minute settlement with Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation (ENRC) to avoid another bruising legal battle over the agency’s corruption probe...
The UK’s National Crime Agency – widely dubbed Britain’s FBI – is at a crossroads. If it is to be at the forefront of the UK’s fight against serious and...
Without serious reform and investment, the National Crime Agency’s ability to protect the public from major threats, including corruption, money laundering and organised crime, will be critically compromised, according to...
A group of anti-corruption NGOs has written to Foreign Secretary David Lammy urging the UK government to take swift action to identify, seize and return assets stolen from the people...
Corruption costs lives in developing countries and the UK is part of the problem. Its army of ‘professional enablers’ (including bankers, lawyers, estate agents and accountants) help to launder and...
